Yevgeny Nikanorowitsch Pavlovsky
Yevgeny Nikanorowitsch Pawlowski ( Russian Евгений Никанорович Павловский , English transcription Yevgeny Pavlovsky Nikanorovich; born February 22 . Jul / 5. March 1884 greg. In Biryuch , Voronezh Governorate , † 27 May 1965 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet physician and zoologist who mainly dealt with parasitology .
Pavlovsky attended the Medical Military Academy in Saint Petersburg . In 1921 he became a professor there. From 1933 to 1944 he was at the All-Unions Institute for Experimental Medicine in Leningrad and from 1937 to 1951 he was also in the Tajik branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. From 1942 to 1962 he was director of the Zoological Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. From 1946 he headed the Department of Parasitology and Medical Zoology at the Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences (of which he was a member since 1944). During the Second World War he was lieutenant general in the health service.
1952-1965 he was President of the Soviet Geographic Society. In this capacity, he organized many expeditions to study parasites and pathogens in large, even remote areas of the Soviet Union. He studied the host animals of parasites as their immediate habitat and ecological issues related to diseases caused by parasites. From him comes a doctrine of the natural reservoirs (especially wild mammals and especially rodents and birds) of pathogens for humans and farm animals and he investigated their biogeography.
In 1958 he received the Darwin Wallace Medal . He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1939) and received a number of high honors in the Soviet Union (twice the Stalin Prize (1941, 1950), the Lenin Prize , several times the Order of Lenin , Hero of Socialist Work in 1964). In 1951 he became an honorary member of the Tajik branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1959 he was accepted into the Leopoldina . From 1931 to 1965 he was President of the Soviet Entomological Society .
Pavlovsky's grave is located in the Bogoslovskoye Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.
Fonts
- Poisonous animals and their toxicity, Jena: Fischer 1927
- Collecting, breeding and studying fleas, deterring them (Ed.), Handbuch der Biologische Arbeitsverbindungen, 1931
- Collecting, breeding and testing ticks, Berlin 1930
- Methods and aim of the detection of ectoparasites and carriers of invasions and infections in domestic animals, Handh der Biologische Arbeitsverbindungen 1938
- Human Parasitology (Russian), 2 volumes, Publishing House of the Soviet Academy of Sciences 1946, 1948
- Methods of sectioning insects, VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften 1960
- Natural foci of human infections, Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information (US), 1963
- Natural nidality of transmissible diseases: with special reference to the landscape epidemiology of zooanthroponoses, University of Illinois Press 1966
- Atlas of the Invertebrates of the Far Eastern Seas of the USSR, Israel Program for Scientific Translations 1971
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Evgenij N. Pavlovskij (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 31, 2017.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pavlovsky, Evgeny Nikanorowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Павловский, Евгений Никанорович; Pavlovsky, Yevgeny Nikanorovich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet medic and zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biryuch , Voronezh Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 1965 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |